East Yorkshire Regiment

The East Yorkshire Regiment was a British Army infantry regiment which was active from 1685 to 1958. It was raised in Nottingham, Yorkshire, England in 1685 by Sir William Clifton, 3rd Baronet, and it first fought against the Jacobites before serving in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, World War I, World War II, the Palestinian Civil War, and the Malayan Emergency before being merged into the Prince of Wales' Own Regiment of Yorkshire in 1958.